Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-06-17

the business of the Indian government in
England and has control Of all matters re-
lating to it. The governor general is supreme
in India, but the different provinces have sub
ordinate governors and number of these are
governed by native princes England limits,
however, the military force which they can
hold and does not allow them to send ambas-
sailors from one country to the other. The
English army in India is more than twice as
large as that Of the United States and it con-
sists of about So 600 men. It has, in addition
to this. native army of 1884, COO men, but in
case Of war 1t would not be surprising IL these
wsat over to the natives or by their treachery
did the government more harm than good. Il
costs e10O, 0O0, 900 q year to maintain this Eng
lish army in India, and this, Of course, comes
out of the natives. It Is not much wonder
that they decidedly object and that they
would. If possible, throw of the yoke Of the
British government Their own armies,
which are independent of the native army
above spoken Of, outnumber the English forces
by many hundreds of thousands. The Hindoo
states alone have 275,O men and the Mo
hamhedan states "a, 900 men. These immense
armies are composed Of infantry. cavalry
and artillery and they are we'll supplied with
guns.
The Indians have shown themselves to be
good soldiers in the past. They are noted as
thinkers and philosophers, and they are a far
different class Of people than we Americans
generally suppose. As to their religion, there
are only little more than Goo, 600 Christians
among them, and more than one-half of these
are Roman Catholics There are fifty Mo-
hammedans for every Christian, and the
Hindoos in India alone number more than the
entire population of Great Britain and the
United States. The Buddhists are to the
Christians as three to one. The density of
population is very great, and this becomes
denser with the increase which is now going
on. In an area of a little over 900 600 square
miles, or just about one third the size of the
United States, there are about 254 ,O00, 600
people, and there are, by large number,
more men than women in India. AS to cities,
there are many large ones which we never
hear of. Both Calcutta and Bombay are
bigger than Chicago. and Madras is greater
than ST. Louis in size. Hyberadab has
354 900 people, and Lucknow is bigger than
Washington. There are sixty towns in India
which have over $4,000 inhabitants to thirty
five Of more than that size in the United
States -
As to education, though it Is said to be
200, 0OO, 900 of the people of India who are uu-
able to read and write, and the reign of Eng
land undoubtedly tends to improve the edu-
cation of the country. The railways of India
are said to be as good as any in the world,
and there are now about 10 900 miles of road
in operation. The roads are we'll patronized,
and the fares are very low, second class being
less than two cents and third class only one
half cent per mile. Even at this rate the In
dams make their money off third class pas
sengers, and the same is true of England,
where the rates are nearly twice as high.
One can travel over the greater part Of India
by rail, and a network of roads has been
made and lined with trees. There are a num-
Der Of canals which run throughout the coun-
try, and the English government, by its pub
lie works, has been doing great deal for the
country. x*a
The climate Of India is almost as varied as
that Of the United States. It has at its top,
you know, the biggest mountains in the
world-the Himalayas-zand the peninsula Of
which it is composed is watered with mag
nificent rivers This territory, which is just
about half the size of the United States, is
made up Of plains, hills and rolling lands. 1t
has immense plains, which are thoroughly ir-
rigated, and its agricultural possibilities are
rs fine as those Of any land in the world. 1t
is q country which will make splendid
foundation for grand empire, and were the
Hindoos not the most disunited of any nation
on the face Of the globe, they would have
long ago overthrow this power, whose rep
resentative citizens they outnumber by more
than / 900 to one
FRANK G. CARPENTER.